Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 145 182 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.25% 5.66% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.11% 19.38% 22.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 141 242
10th Percentile £375 £411 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.77% +11.58%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £631
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile £45.88 £27.03 £28.88
25th Percentile £47.79 £33.95 £33.50
Median hourly rate £68.75 £40.30 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +70.62% +1.43% -9.71%
75th Percentile £74.63 £43.39 £42.62
90th Percentile £82.35 - £46.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
North West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 687 939 1,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.86% 29.23% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 711 1,089
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £539 £589 £588
90th Percentile £612 £650 £663
England median daily rate £540 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -4.42% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 14 33
10th Percentile £41.25 £20.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £44.72 £37.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.43 £40.59 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -2.19% +22.06%
75th Percentile £69.53 £51.93 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.15 £62.95 £60.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.84 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% +23.68% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +9 111 £498 -14.67% 58
Cheshire -12 24 £489 -11.09% 6
Lancashire +6 9 £638 +70.00% 7
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.14%) Apache
2 6 (4.14%) Confluence
3 5 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (2.76%) Mule
5 3 (2.07%) IIS
6 1 (0.69%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.07%) Maximo
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 74 (51.03%) AWS
2 14 (9.66%) Azure
3 10 (6.90%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (6.21%) Serverless
5 8 (5.52%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.14%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.45%) Apigee
7 5 (3.45%) Kong
8 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.07%) GCP
9 3 (2.07%) GitHub
9 3 (2.07%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.38%) SaaS
11 1 (0.69%) Collibra
11 1 (0.69%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.45%) FTP
1 5 (3.45%) HTTP
2 3 (2.07%) SSL
3 1 (0.69%) DNS
3 1 (0.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.72%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.21%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (6.21%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.52%) MySQL
4 7 (4.83%) Big Data
5 5 (3.45%) OLAP
5 5 (3.45%) OLTP
5 5 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
5 5 (3.45%) SQLite
6 4 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (2.76%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.07%) HBase
7 3 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.07%) Power BI
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 28 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.79%) Git
2 20 (13.79%) JIRA
3 14 (9.66%) Android Studio
4 13 (8.97%) Cucumber
4 13 (8.97%) JUnit
5 10 (6.90%) Mockito
6 9 (6.21%) GitLab
7 7 (4.83%) Selenium
8 5 (3.45%) Gatling
8 5 (3.45%) Maven
9 4 (2.76%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.76%) Liquibase
9 4 (2.76%) Log4j
9 4 (2.76%) Postman
10 3 (2.07%) Gradle
10 3 (2.07%) JMeter
10 3 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.07%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.38%) TestCafe
General
1 26 (17.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.66%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.97%) Banking
4 11 (7.59%) Finance
5 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.14%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.07%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (50.34%) Developer
2 40 (27.59%) Java Developer
3 28 (19.31%) Senior
4 19 (13.10%) Android Developer
5 17 (11.72%) Senior Developer
6 15 (10.34%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 10 (6.90%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.14%) Architect
11 6 (4.14%) Senior Test Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) AWS Architect
12 5 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 4 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (2.76%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.21%) RESTful
1 38 (26.21%) Spring
2 30 (20.69%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.93%) REST
4 22 (15.17%) Web Services
5 18 (12.41%) Hibernate
5 18 (12.41%) Kafka
6 17 (11.72%) JPA
7 16 (11.03%) React
8 13 (8.97%) Node.js
9 11 (7.59%) OAuth
9 11 (7.59%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.59%) OpenID
9 11 (7.59%) XML
10 8 (5.52%) .NET
10 8 (5.52%) JSON
10 8 (5.52%) Spring Security
11 7 (4.83%) J2EE
12 6 (4.14%) HTML
12 6 (4.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.52%) Greenfield Project
1 8 (5.52%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.45%) DataPower
2 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.07%) Low-Code
3 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.38%) Derivative
4 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.38%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.69%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.69%) IoT
5 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.48%) Android
2 7 (4.83%) Unix
3 4 (2.76%) Linux
4 2 (1.38%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (43.45%) Agile
2 40 (27.59%) Microservices
3 30 (20.69%) CI/CD
3 30 (20.69%) Software Engineering
4 29 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 28 (19.31%) Test Automation
6 23 (15.86%) Design Patterns
6 23 (15.86%) DevOps
7 21 (14.48%) Scrum
8 19 (13.10%) Android Development
9 18 (12.41%) Front End Development
9 18 (12.41%) OO
10 15 (10.34%) TDD
11 12 (8.28%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (6.90%) API Management
12 10 (6.90%) Containerisation
12 10 (6.90%) Observability
12 10 (6.90%) OOP
12 10 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (6.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) Python
2 21 (14.48%) Kotlin
3 15 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 11 (7.59%) SQL
5 10 (6.90%) C#
5 10 (6.90%) PHP
6 9 (6.21%) Scala
7 8 (5.52%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.76%) Groovy
8 4 (2.76%) Perl
8 4 (2.76%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.07%) Go
10 2 (1.38%) C
10 2 (1.38%) C++
10 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (22.76%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.45%) Degree
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.69%) GxP
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Terraform
3 4 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.07%) Ansible
4 3 (2.07%) Grafana
5 2 (1.38%) Kibana
6 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (8.28%) Oracle
2 8 (5.52%) IBM
3 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.45%) Informatica
4 5 (3.45%) Talend
4 5 (3.45%) TSYS
5 3 (2.07%) Nintex
5 3 (2.07%) Pega
5 3 (2.07%) SAP
6 2 (1.38%) Google
7 1 (0.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.69%) Confluent
7 1 (0.69%) Databricks
7 1 (0.69%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.69%) New Relic
7 1 (0.69%) Teradata